BRS terms Ghose Commission report on Kaleshwaram project politically motivated

BRS leaders accused the Congress government of distorting the Ghose Commission report on Kaleshwaram for political vendetta. They challenged the report's selective leaks, dismissed its legal standing, and demanded accountability for all involved in the project, not just BRS leaders.

Hyderabad: The BRS leaders have launched a counterattack on the Congress government over the Ghose Commission report on the Kaleshwaram project, charging it with misusing institutions for political gain. They found fault with Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy’s claims on the Commission’s report, questioning his legal knowledge.

Former Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that inquiry commissions appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, were not judicial bodies and could not deliver verdicts like courts.

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“They are fact-finding panels that only make recommendations,” he said, stating that the Congress was distorting facts for political mileage. He accused the government of selectively leaking portions of the 665-page report, reducing it to 60 pages to target BRS and its leader K Chandrashekhar Rao.

He questioned why the Commission, which found fault with Chandrashekhar Rao, former Ministers T Harish Rao and Eatala Rajender along with a few officials, spared others who were involved in the project construction at different stages.

Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council, S Madhusudana Chary said Congress lacked moral authority to speak about institutional integrity. He recalled that from the Emergency period to undermining elected governments, the Congress manipulated institutions and was now politicising the Ghose Commission’s report.

BRS leader G Devi Prasad criticised the Congress for cherry-picking content from the report and challenged them to counter Harish Rao’s recent detailed rebuttal with a presentation of their own. He questioned Revanth Reddy’s faith in democratic systems, citing his past remarks on anti-defection rulings. He called out the Congress government’s double standards in targeting BRS, while protecting its own Ministers and officials named in the same report.